RSS
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Of Course! Brush Markers
Designer Phelan Miller hits us with an ever-so-slight tweak of the ever-present highlighter marker. As part of a 12-hour designer challenge where a rendering was due at the end of the period, Miller decided to fuse the highlighter and the paintbrush together. Incorporating a paintbrush-shaped handle and a chisel tipped color distributor, this right here becomes a pen I’m surprised doesn’t exist already.
I’ve never been the highlighter type. I circle things with pencils. Makes the book look nicer? I think. But that’s not gonna stop the millions of billions of students who use highlighters for studying every day! Not to mention office peoples. Billions and trillions! And I wonder, I wonder! Would they benefit from a nicer hold on their ‘lighters? I bet, I just bet, that they would.
Designer: Phelan Miller
9 Comments »
trybudi says
slick slick slick!
Confucius says
Brilliant. I too am surprised its not already out there…
AlienzExist says
Clever, and impressive for a short projects of a few hours. But not new. I remember using brush tip markers as a kid, twenty years ago.
Sean says
Unfortunately, it does exist… Staedtler has been making them for a long time….
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/419869/Staedtler-Mars-Graphic-3000-Duo-Watercolor/?cm_mmc=Mercent-_-Google-_-Markers_and_Highlighters-_-419869&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=plusbox-beta&mr:trackingCode=02460D1B-EC81-DE11-B7F3-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA
trybudi says
this design is NOT about the tip, its the whole body of the marker that is designed to look like a traditional brush
http://www.fordesigner.com/maps//7004-0.htm
designboy says
its the body of the marker, it promotes the natural arm use of the pen, and the style is nothing I have seen ever before, com’n people
Hollis Ervin says
Of course, paintbrushes are tapered like that to make it more comfortable to hold them “knife-style” rather than “pen-style” and use the whole arm. Detail brushes, whose tips are approximately the size of these marker points, are usually much less tapered for holding “pen-style” and using the fingers or smaller arm motions. It’s all about comfort. I suppose if you wanted to draw on a large sheet with markers, this could be useful, but then I’d want to see wider tips.
Ypls says
Where can I bought one?
Trackbacks